Il mio Overseas a Sydney, Australia (Gen-Lug 2007)... e il mio periodo di Tesi all'Estero a Rotterdam/Utrecht, Olanda (Ott 2007-Mar 2008)!

3rd July – Two for one cinema

Once I finished the exams I could finally concentrate on my holidays, which anyway had already forced to be reduced by the UTS superficiality.
I went to the agency where the girls (Simona, Silvia, Claudia, Federica and Sophie) had booked their trip to the East Coast and asked for information on how to join them from the following days in Hervey Bay in order to go to Fraser Island.
On that night, anyway, I was still in Sydney so I could enjoy the “special offer” of the Greater Union cinemas in George Street. Someone found that inside the cinema all the rooms were connected by a gangway. In other words, after a movie you could try to sneak into a further one.
I met my friends at 6.00 PM. We wanted to see Transformers, but it was full for all the four shows for that night, so we had to choose something else. Max gave up (he was there basically for Transformers but had another appointment, so when Transformes became impossible to be seen he decided to go away) so I remained with Andrea and Sylvain.
We bought an icecream at Hungy Jack’s, claiming a second one for free because the first was – in our opinion – smaller than usual. We did not succeed in our complaint, so we told them that we would have gone to the competitors the following time. Come on, it was “two for one night”!!!
Then we chose our movie: “Ocean’s thirteen”. We purchased the tickets, stopped for a picture with The Simpsons at the entrance, and entered into the room.

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8th May – BoS/4: Because I said so

Another Tuesday, another movie. It was virtually impossible to go away. Furthermore I was there and I could not leave the place without telling the girl I loved all my love for her. I could not even give up, I was there representing my Uni, my family, my friends. The Doctor would have stayed there, until the end, even after such a big blow. It was Tuesday, anyway I still had my Advanced Manufacturing Lab from 5.30 to 7.30 PM, so I could not join the Ultimate Frisbee trainings anymore (they were from 6 to 8), but running home after Uni would have given me the opportunity to go to the cinema with the others.
This time Spiderman 3 was out from a few day: to get there and watch it one should have been there quite in advance to secure a seat because of the great demand. Furthermore my roommate Alessandra had already seen it on Saturday so we decided to go there not in a rush: we would have seen something else.
Knowing that a couple (you know which one) could have been there I didn’t feel very comfortable. I was right, the couple was not in the queue for “Spiderman 3”: they suddenly appeared from nothing. I could not believe my eyes, I didn’t want to believe them, so I started to talk to Alessandra (holy girl!) and we chose “Because I said so”, purchased the tickets and took our seats in the room.
The incredible had still to come anyway. The movie was about to start and... who entered in the same room to watch the same movie? Try to guess... yes, correct answer. Furthermore my seat was next to the stairs and they passed just next to me, with Ale whispering me “don’t turn now”. After a few seconds I understood why.

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1st May – “Half Nelson” or “Number 23”?

A lot of time passed. I had to study hard for my mid-semester exams, but my sentimental situation was very bad. I could not sleep at night, and the only few hours I was in the bed, I was victim of something not specified that was biting me. A bad situation, so I had to do my best given the poor conditions I was in.
Another Tuesday came, and since in Australia (at least in New South Wales) the first day of May is not a holiday to celebrate the working people (I think it is in Queensland), we had the opportunity to go to the cinema one more time. On Tuesday I used to have frisbee trainings, but UTS added me a lab from 5.30PM to 7.30PM, and by the time I could join the trainings at 8PM they would have been finished, so I decided to go to the cinema, to do something at least. We were quite a big group, Charles, Eva and Maria were in front of UTS waiting for me (and for some others who did not show, receiving some “threats” of not being called anymore, time will give us the answer) and at the cinema waiting for us were also Alessandra (who would have become my new roommate soon), her friend Giulia from Italy, and then Jason, Alyssa and Melanie. The decision was pretty tough: except for a few of us, including me, everyone wanted to see a different movie. We could not end to the same solution for all the people, so the first ones to queue in practice chose the movies. I finished to see “Half Nelson” with Maria and Eva, while all the others went for “Number 23”, maybe too scary for Maria?! Bah, I don’t know, I just know that our movie was about a man drug addicted and I got thrown some popcorn on my head by Eva at the end of the movie. At the exit we met the others who told us that their movie was about a series of coincidences of the number 23. None of them seemed to have been a great one.

 

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10th April – Finally Cinema: Reign Over Me

On the first Tuesday after Easter, since I had no frisbee trainings, I could go to the cinema. But while all the previous times the group was much bigger, formed by four, five, six or even more people, this time Eva was left alone and so we were just the two of us.

In the morning I checked the timetable for all the movies, but unfortunately in the wrong cinema! In fact while I thought they were always going to the cinema in Broadway (I discovered later that another group was actually going there), our place to go was the Greater Union cinema in George Street. I stopped at Eva’s place on my way and we did the walk to the cinema together. Once there we were uncertain about the movie to see. Each one of us wanted the other to choose, but since Eva decided the day for the Manly walk, she forced me to choose the movie. I came out with a pair, so for the final decision we had to use a 20cents coin. The “god-money” chose Reign Over Me, so we purchased our tickets and took our seats.

The movie was a bit hard to decipher at the beginning, but after a few minutes the story became clear and mixed some funny situations to rapid turnovers. When the movie was going to its end some moments became pretty tough, with the characters left alone in their personal stories. It was hard not to become part of it, and my friend showed that she is not just a nice person, but she has a big heart as well.

The movie, a very good one in our opinion (and in fact we blessed the 20cents coin) finished, then I accompanied home Eva before walking alone a few more minutes to my house in Redfern, in a tough situation for my beating heart. Right as in the movie. That was my "Reign Over Me".

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